Vampire Diaries Casts Heretic Trio in Season 7, Including Same-Sex Couple

Say hello to the women who are going to make the Salvatores’ lives even more of a living hell on The Vampire Diaries next season.

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Last month, TVLine revealed that a trio of terrors was coming to Mystic Falls, and now — per our sister publication Variety — we can put faces to those names.

Scarlett Byrne (Falling Skies) and Teressa Liane (Neighbours) will play heretics Nora and Mary Louise, the show’s first same-sex couple. Both women are extremely powerful and fiercely protective of one another — a lethal combination for anyone who might decide to cross them.

Of course, it sounds like neither of them can hold a candle to Valerie, played by Elizabeth Blackmore (Legend of the Seeker). Despite being a member of Lily’s “family,” she’s having none of Mama Salvatore’s peaceful approach to change, largely because of the struggles she’s faced in her own life.

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(For reference, the order in which the ladies appear from left to right in the photo above are Byrne, Liane and Blackmore.)

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